Job Summary:

• Manages contractor performance and work completion for safety, compliance, accuracy, and schedule attainment.
• Performs audits of completed work for contractual and regulatory compliance. 
• Manages and monitors contractor for safe working practices and ensures contractor fire preparedness. 
• Resolves customer refusals and performs conflict resolution to promote safe and compliant conditions, and provides positive customer service. 
• Responsible for the interpretation and application of easement rights which may at times expose the employee to challenging and potentially hostile refusal customer interactions. 
• Performs risk assessment analysis in the determination of work scope and priority thereby assuming high level responsibility for compliance and safety. 
• Monitors contractor compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and ordinances. 
• Develops practices and procedures with internal and external entities relative to vegetation management activities.
• Reviews and processes contractor billing in a timely manner in accordance with company fiduciary and budgeting requirements.
• Prepares and leads contractor status meetings to assess and track contractor performance and work completion.

Skills on Resume: 

• Contractor Management (Soft Skills)
• Audit Compliance (Hard Skills)
• Conflict Resolution (Soft Skills)
• Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)
• Safety Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Regulatory Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Billing and Budgeting (Hard Skills)
• Meeting Facilitation (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Responds to customer inquiries pertaining to vegetation management activities. 
• Consults with Project Planning on new business construction and conversion projects, and coordinates vegetation work activities to meet deadlines.
• Investigates customer complaints regarding department activities, and manages contractor response to complaints. 
• Responds to customer requests for tree work. 
• Provides research, documentation, and testimony related to claims and litigation.
• Develops and maintains critical working relationships with various entities such as local, state, and federal agencies for the advancement of safe and reliable vegetation management activities. 
• Coordinates permitting and traffic control requirements between contractor and associated entities. 
• Performs secondary response during emergency events in support of facility protection and fire preparedness.
• Performs field investigation of vegetation-related outages and creates associated reports to document and identify best practices.
• Develops and performs outreach and education for inter-company departments and public events to build awareness of tree safety and electric reliability and the associated arboricultural benefits

Skills on Resume: 

• Customer Response (Soft Skills)
• Project Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Complaint Handling (Soft Skills)
• Tree Work (Hard Skills)
• Litigation Support (Hard Skills)
• Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
• Permitting (Hard Skills)
• Field Investigation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Provide technical assistance to landowners in all areas of forest management.
• Write multiple resource-based forest management plans for landowners.
• Assist with timber sales on state lands.
• Provide technical assistance to landowners in afforestation and reforestation.
• Diagnose insect and disease infestations and make recommendations for control.
• Assess storm damage to forest lands.
• Develop prescribed burning plans and assist with implementation.
• Provide assistance with establishing Streamside Management Zones.
• Present forestry programs to school groups and local government bodies.
• Assist landowners with cost-share programs.
• Prepare reports including measuring and computing acreage.
• Assist landowners in controlling burns.

Skills on Resume: 

• Technical Assistance (Soft Skills)
• Forest Management Plans (Hard Skills)
• Timber Sales (Hard Skills)
• Afforestation (Hard Skills)
• Pest Control (Hard Skills)
• Storm Damage Assessment (Hard Skills)
• Prescribed Burning (Hard Skills)
• Program Presentation (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Assisting in the preparation and formulation of timber management plan and harvest schedule.
• Working knowledge of GPS equipment and GIS software for the management of forest inventory, property lines, road systems, and the generation of exhibits.
• Preparation and supervision of timber harvests to include the plan of a sale, volume estimations, timber marking, SMZ and sale boundary delineation, bid process, contract development, oversite of contractors, environmental/safety inspections, and settlement processing.
• Oversite of the entire reforestation process.
• Assisting in preparing budget and revenue forecasts.
• Aiding in real estate transactions such as land sales/acquisitions, mitigation projects, conservations easements, encroachments, etc.
• Aiding other operational departments in tasks such FERC relicensing, landfill and substations clearing, vegetation management, ROW compensation determination, wildlife control, etc.
• Assisting in prescribed burns and all other silvicultural treatments.
• Monitoring and managing all timberland assets to ensure health, protection of property, realization of timber theft, etc.
• Ongoing property line maintenance.
• Management of complex spreadsheets and reports.

Skills on Resume: 

• Timber Management (Hard Skills)
• GPS and GIS (Hard Skills)
• Timber Harvesting (Hard Skills)
• Reforestation (Hard Skills)
• Budgeting (Hard Skills)
• Real Estate Transactions (Hard Skills)
• Silvicultural Treatments (Hard Skills)
• Asset Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Ensure all silviculture work as indicated in the annual plan of operation in accordance with the annual budget is completed
• Ensures that all silvicultural work is done with emphasis on quality and compliance with the silvicultural policy, planning and geographical practice
• Managing all conservation work
• Managing supply and apply the weeding program
• Ordering of seedlings for planting and blanking
• Monitoring seedling's survival by doing survival counts
• Monitor and seedlings disease and report to his/her manager
• Knowledge of modernized silviculture
• Under canopy burning of come compartments
• Check daily overtime booked by teams and approve it
• Ensure all vehicle log sheets under control is completed daily, all Vehicle and other equipment under control is serviced
• Keep up to date with modern trends, innovations, and practice in silviculture as well as tolls, herbicides, and possible natural threats to the tree stock such as insects, fungi, weeds etc.
• Attend silviculture meetings

Skills on Resume: 

• Silviculture Management (Hard Skills)
• Conservation Work (Hard Skills)
• Weeding Program (Hard Skills)
• Seedling Ordering (Hard Skills)
• Survival Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Disease Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Under Canopy Burning (Hard Skills)
• Equipment Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Manage financial program resources within the allotted budget and in accordance with an annual program of work.
• Combine technical knowledge Urban Forestry with sound business practices to direct the overall operations of a greenspace management division.
• Supervise employees and outside contractors in the day-to-day operational maintenance and management of City trees.
• Coordinate tree planting requests, schedules, and plans with public utility companies, city agencies, and the general public.
• Direct execution of safety and security measures to protect human and capital resources. 
• Manage, train, develop, counsel and evaluate performance of managers and non-management staff.
• Conduct investigations related to certain incidents and submits required reports.
• Participate in emergency preparedness and disaster recovery planning and implementation. 
• Assist in the design and implementation of plans and projects to improve efficiencies in the division.
• Establish policies, procedures, guidelines and project schedules.
• Ensure compliance with departmental and city-wide policies and procedures.

Skills on Resume: 

• Budget Management (Hard Skills)
• Urban Forestry (Hard Skills)
• Employee Supervision (Soft Skills)
• Tree Planting Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Safety Management (Hard Skills)
• Staff Development (Soft Skills)
• Incident Investigation (Hard Skills)
• Emergency Planning (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develop long and short-range plans, to include budget, leading high-priority projects, and studies to provide input to the highest management levels in the organization.
• Serve as a technical expert providing agency enterprise project development, which includes defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support the use of Forest Service Permanent and Trust Funds.
• Formulate policies, objectives, and standards for this specific program.
• Identify, develop, execute and monitor training programs related to program objectives
• Provide technical advice, consultation and support to departments and other agencies and groups.
• Prepare for and participate in and conducts meetings.
• Assist in reviewing, evaluating, selecting and implementing hardware and software products.
• Assist departments and general public in obtaining and explaining technical and non-technical information.
• Provide input into developing codes, ordinances and specifications.
• Draft and review proposed contracts, correspondence, reports, letters of agreement and amendments.
• Assist with the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the budget and expenditures. 
• Review, revise and approve purchase requests.

Skills on Resume: 

• Project Planning (Hard Skills)
• Technical Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Policy Formulation (Hard Skills)
• Training Development (Soft Skills)
• Consultation (Soft Skills)
• Meeting Facilitation (Soft Skills)
• Contract Management (Hard Skills)
• Budget Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Monitor, assess, and manage the Commonwealth's forests in a sustainable, exemplary manner.
• Provide direction and oversight to silviculture implemented on DCRs State Forests, Parks and Reservations
• Approve staff-drafted timber sale contract/permits and MA Chapter 132 Forest Cutting Plans
• Serving as signatory and arbiter of forestry aspects of the timber sale contract/permit and cutting plans
• Develop, implement, and monitor the policies and operational procedures relating to forest management on state lands.
• Develop, implement, and monitor standards for maps, boundaries, roads, visual aesthetics, and habitat management.
• Oversee the preparation and editing of Forest Resource Management Plans and the review of the Landscape Designations for DCR Parks and Forests, Selection Criteria and Management Guidelines
• Conduct public outreach for State Lands Management. 
• Work independently and with staff on interpretive/educational messaging about forest management
• Assist Director with Bureau/DCR meetings

Skills on Resume: 

• Forest Management (Hard Skills)
• Silviculture Oversight (Hard Skills)
• Contract Approval (Hard Skills)
• Policy Development (Hard Skills)
• Standards Implementation (Hard Skills)
• Resource Planning (Hard Skills)
• Public Outreach (Soft Skills)
• Educational Messaging (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Work with GIS/Inventory Forester and Information Technology (IT) on continued improvements to forestry databases and forestry information systems
• Coordinate forest monitoring on stand level and landscape level with staff GIS/Inventory Forester using modern stand exam techniques, remote sensing and Continuous Forest Inventory.
• Help coordinate forest studies on DCR properties.
• Reach out to constituents to raise awareness of the program and increase participation based upon evaluated constituent needs.
• Oversee State Public Land Policies and Procedures including the development of state goals.
• Develop program performance measures, maintain program records and annually evaluate and report to the state and federal government on program progress and future direction.
• Supervise the Management Forestry Program staff and perform administrative tasks for the program.
• Manage and administer the budget for Capital Forestry Programs.
• Communicate with a variety of persons and organizations with diverse issues, concerns, agendas and values to negotiate and build coalitions to achieve objectives and resolve conflicts.
• Resolve mutual problems and develop integrated approaches for problem solving to promote effective program opportunities.
• Prepare written documents for outside parties which present controversial information designed to persuade and/or gain understanding and support for program goals and objectives.

Skills on Resume: 

• GIS Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Forest Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Program Outreach (Soft Skills)
• Policy Development (Hard Skills)
• Performance Measurement (Hard Skills)
• Staff Supervision (Soft Skills)
• Budget Management (Hard Skills)
• Conflict Resolution (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develop, implement and administer timber harvest plans
• Oversee and participate in fieldwork
• Supervises Louisiana Pacific’s harvesting, road construction, and hauling on crown land.
• Ensure compliance with the Forest Act and Regulations and Louisiana Pacific’s Standard Operating Procedures
• Layout of block boundaries and roads outside of the block as well as inside the block boundary.
• Perform wood quality checks to ensure quality standards are met by the contractor delivering the product to the mill.
• Responsible for wood deliveries
• Monitor Administration and road budgets
• Perform Pre-Harvest Surveys
• Assist with surveys and sample plots and other research programs.
• Work closely with the seasonal staff during the summer and fall months, assisting with training and work activities.
• Ensure LP’s mobile equipment is maintained and kept in good operating condition.
• Assist with contractor environmental audits during the operating season.
• Work closely with government agencies.

Skills on Resume: 

• Timber Harvesting (Hard Skills)
• Field Supervision (Soft Skills)
• Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
• Road Layout (Hard Skills)
• Wood Quality Checks (Hard Skills)
• Budget Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Pre-Harvest Surveys (Hard Skills)
• Contractor Audits (Hard Skills)